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- 1. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following best describes the main idea of Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth?Privately held wealth should be handed over to the government to be redistributedWealthy individuals should use their wealth for social benefitParents have an obligation to pass on their wealth to their childrenAccumulating large amounts of wealth violates Christian principals
- 2. Multiple ChoiceThis period during the 1870s to 1900 is known for its rise of railroads, big business, industrialization and social problems in the United States.World War IProgressive EraGilded ageRoaring Twenties
- 3. Multiple ChoiceDuring the Gilded age, workers came together under ___________________________ to work for better pay, working conditions, and less hours.PhilanthropyLabor UnionsPolitical BossesCredit Unions
- 4. Multiple ChoiceThe Farmer's Alliance, the Grange, and the ______________ stood for additional government regulation of trade, currency, and the protection of other farmers' interests.ProgressivesFree Soil PartyKnights of LaborPopulists
- 5. Multiple ChoiceIn 1890, who wrote about and photographed the horrible living conditions of America's working poor in the book How the Other Half Lives?Upton SinclairIda TarbellIda WellsJacob Riis
- 6. Multiple ChoiceWilliam Graham Sumner, a researcher during the Gilded Age, believed that government programs to help the poor were useless because people had a certain place that could not be changed. This philosophy was called...EvolutionMonetary PolicySocial DarwinismWelfare Capitalism
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Which of these best describes life in a turn of the century tenement?Very crowdedSpreading sickness and diseaseNo windows, heat, or plumbingAll of the above - 8. Multiple ChoiceDuring the age of industrialization, the Southwas not targeted by northern industrialists who sought to introduce factories into the regionreceived preferential treatment from the railroadsturned away from agricultureremained overwhelmingly rural and agricultural
- 9. Multiple ChoiceOne of the methods by which post-Civil War business leaders increased their profits wasElimination of as much competition as possibleSupporting a centrally planned economyFunding research on new technologiesElimination of the tactic of vertical integration
- 10. Multiple ChoiceLate nineteenth-century farmers believed that their difficultues stemmed fromlow tariff ratesoverproductiona deflated currency and low prices for their agricultural goodsimmigration lawas
- 11. Multiple ChoiceThe first major farmers' organization was theNational GrangePopulistsGreenback Labor PartyFarmers' alliance
- 12. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following pairs of immigrant groups were most prominent in the construction of the first transcontinental railroad?Chinese & IrishIrish & JapaneseChinese & JapaneseChinese & Italians
- 13. Multiple ChoiceThe People’s Party (Populist) advocated which of the following?an increase of the money supplysupport for civil rights legislationa decrease in agriculture productionjoint ownership of businesses by urban workers and farmers
- 14. Multiple ChoiceAt the end of the nineteenth century, the desire of American business to control supplies and processes of raw materials led toautomation of industryhorizontal integrationvertical integrationdevelopment of the "putting-out system"
- 15. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following was a result of the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 ?it encouraged cooperative ownership among the Native AmericansNative Indians to attack US fortsforced assimilation of Native AmericansRelocation of Natives across the Mississippi River
- 16. Multiple ChoiceThe method of mass production that developed during the nineteenth century was a process thatrelied on the use of power-driven machinesprovided less supervision of workersrelied on train guildspromoted better relations between workers and employees
- 17. Multiple ChoiceIn the late nineteenth century, state governments in the South were largely successful in restrictingthe power of the Democratic party in the regioncorruption of the national governmentrestricting blacks from votinganti trust laws in textile mills
- 18. Multiple ChoiceAlthough the Sherman Antitrust Act was originally intended to inhibit the growth of business monopolies, courts initially used its provisions successfully againstbankslabor unionsimmigrantspolitical machines
- 19. Multiple ChoiceW. E. B. Du Bois differed in philosophy from Booker T. Washington in that Du Bois believedAfrican Americans should pursue immediate and full equalityjob training was ultimately more important than formal educationcivil rights would come through local efforts rather than national organizationsegregation was a southern problem more than a national one
- 20. Multiple ChoiceThe Supreme Court decision of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) did which of the following?denounced business combinations in restraint of tradesanctioned separate but equal facilitiesdefined the Constitution as "color blind"Empowered the US government to enact treaties with the Native Americans
- 21. Multiple ChoiceThe cartoon above is commentary of 19th centurylabor unrestbusiness monopoliescivil-rights campaignurban corruption
- 22. Multiple ChoiceAuthor of the "The Jungle", which exposed the horrors of the meatpacking industry.Ida B. WellsUpton SinclairRobert La FolletteFrances Willard
- 23. Multiple ChoiceSocial DarwinismThe idea that people and businesses compete for survivalJournalist who uncovered and proved the truth about the evil of big buisness and politics in America.NAACPThe Jungle
- 24. Multiple ChoiceSuffrageThe right to work in factoriesThe right to live in AmericaThe right to voteThe right not to vote
- 25. Multiple ChoiceWhat continent did 90% of immigrants come to the United States from during the late 1800s?EuropeAsiaLatin AmericaAfrica
- 26. Multiple ChoiceThe cultural fusion and integration of different groups of people that occurred in the U.S. around the time was called ____________________.integrationassimilationimmigrationprocrastination
- 27. Multiple ChoiceThis is the term for immigrants that is the process for adjusting to the culture and government of the United States.AmericanizationNativismAmericanMexiCAN
- 28. Multiple ChoiceIn 1889, during the Gilded Age, a Settlement House called Hull House was opened in Chicago. It was designed to help working class women, many recent immigrants, move out of poverty and dependence on others. It sought to address some of the excesses of industry and business. Who founded Hull House?Margaret SangerJane AddamsElizabeth Cady StantonSusan B. Anthony
- 29. Multiple ChoiceWho was the most influential African American during this time, encouraging African Americans to GRADUALLY move up in society?Malcolm XBooker T. WashingtonGeorge Washington CarverMartin Luther King Jr.
- 30. Multiple ChoiceWhat is a Laissez-Faire economy?An economy that is completely controlled by the U.S. governmentAn economy that is partially controlled by the U.S. governmentAn economy where there is very little involvement by the U.S. governmentAn economy that is controlled by another country
- 31. Multiple ChoiceSpeech by William Jennings BryanThe Gettysburg AddressCross of GoldI Have a DreamHomestead Act
- 32. Multiple ChoiceWho led the Pullman Strike?Chief JosephEugene DebsGeorge CusterHelen Hunt Jackson
- 33. Multiple Choicein 1882, the Government passed this legislation that restricted immigration for 10 years from a certain group into the United States.Nativist ActMexican Reparition ActDawes ActChinese Exclusion Act
- 34. Multiple ChoiceDuring the Gilded age, workers came together to work for better pay, working conditions, and less hours. Leaders such as Samuel Gompers help led many of this workers in....PhilanthropyLabor UnionsPolitical BossesCredit Unions
- 35. Multiple ChoiceThe innovation of this transportation help open up the national market?boatsrailroadsautomobileshorse drawn carriages
- 36. Multiple ChoiceDuring the 19th and early 20th century, These men helped immigrants with jobs and housing in order to control votes during election?political partiesEl Chapopolitical bossesrepublican party
- 37. Multiple Choice"New Immigrants" that came to the United States in the early 1900s were from which part of Europe?South EuropeNE EuropeSW EuropeSE Europe
- 38. Multiple ChoiceThe Pendleton Act of United States in 1883 decided that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit (test) instead of political affiliation.direct votingcivil service reformpolitical machinescivil labor unions
- 39. Multiple ChoiceDue to the corruption of the railroads companies, the U.S. government created this act to regulate railroad companies to be reasonable in prices.Interstate Commerece ActDawes ActTranscontiental ActLaissez Faire Act
- 40. Multiple ChoiceBecause of the rapid growth of Industrilization in the North people moved out of rural towns to?Rural farmsUrbanzied citiesSubrebs citiesEl rancho
- 41. Multiple ChoiceMany Immigrants faced issues once they arrived such as language barriers, but these group of people mostly restricted new immigrants from emtering the country.DemocratsRepublicansDonald TrumpNativists
- 42. Multiple ChoiceThe Farmer's Alliance and the Grange, both founded during the Gilded Age, stood for additional government regulation of trade and creating the conditions for more political power and economic well being for farmers (as compared to industrialists). What 1890s group was founded, supporting these ideas, and attacking the Gold Standard?ProgressivesFree Soil PartyIWWPopulists
- 43. Multiple ChoiceWhat New York politician ran a political machine in New York City beginning in 1869, during the Gilded Age, that was incredibly corrupt. For example, a projected cost of $250,000 for a courthouse turned in to $13,000,000 because of kickbacks and bribes.DaleyGrantTildenTweed
- 44. Multiple ChoiceWhat was a city government marked by corruption, bribery, and Kickbacks (common during the Gilded Age) called?credit mobilierpolitical machinecorrected democracyelectoral politics
- 45. Multiple ChoiceCongressional action taken in 1890, during the Gilded Age, that made "contracts, conspiracies, and combinations" that restrained free trade illegal. This was done to stop the abusive practices of organized trusts in oil, sugar, tobacco...Sherman Antitrust ActCeller-Kefauver ActClayton Antitrust ActInterstate Commerce Act
- 46. Multiple ChoiceCongressional action taken in 1887, during the Gilded Age, to stop the unfair and abusive practices of railroad companies. That is, to stop railroad companies from giving low prices to large shippers (Corporations) and high prices to farmers who had no other shipping options.Sherman Antitrust ActCeller-Kefauver ActClayton Antitrust ActInterstate Commerce Act
- 47. Multiple ChoiceIn 1890, during the Gilded Age, who wrote about and photographed the horrible living conditions of America's working poor in the Book, How the Other Half Lives?Upton SinclairIda TarbellIda WellsJacob Riis
- 48. Multiple ChoiceOne reason nativists worried about influx of immigrants in 1880s...Feared immigrants gain control of city and state governmentsBelieved immigrants receive preferential treatment from federal government and receive landThought country's ports could not handle increasing numbers of immigrants and exportsConsidered immigrants from southern and eastern Europe a threat to traditional American cultural values
- 49. Multiple ChoiceHow Haymarket Square affected Knights of Labor?Massive gathering of workers forced federal government to place limits on union's activitiesWorkers lost confidence in union's leadership after union president given details of rally to policeUnion members grew disillusioned as newspapers blamed workers for violenceUnion's emphasis on recruiting immigrants angered American-born workers
- 50. Multiple ChoiceHow did KoL differ from AFL?KoL advocated strikes as tacticKoL opened membership to women, blacks, and ethnic minoritiesKoL developed stronger relationships with policymakers at federal levelKoL focused on working conditions and workplace safety instead wages and benefits
- 51. Multiple ChoiceWhich of following was most closely associated with the Populist Party?Jane AddamsWilliam Jennings BryanEugene DebsSamuel Gompers
- 52. Multiple ChoiceJohn Muir and Theodore Roosevelt worked together on which movement?safe food and drug lawsconservationracial equalitychild labor laws
- 53. Multiple ChoiceWhat does Trust-busting mean?end discriminationstop monopolies (restore competition)label ingredients on food and drugselection for political offices
- 54. Multiple ChoiceThe protection of nature and its resources is known asrecyclingconservationcommunismsocialism
- 55. Multiple ChoiceWho wrote "A Century Of Dishonor"?William Jennings BryanHelen Hunt JacksonWilliam McKinleyGeorge Custer
- 56. Multiple ChoiceThis movement advocated for a return to traditional ways of life and challenge white dominance in society.Ghost Dance MovementTemperance MovementThe Pullman StrikeThe People's Party
- 57. Multiple ChoiceWhich immigrant is credited fro inventing the light bulb?Andrew CarnegieJohn D. RockefellerThomas EdisonAlexander Graham Bell
- 58. Multiple ChoiceIndustry caused urbanization because...people moved out of cities in order to find jobspeople moved to cities because that's where jobs werecities were very appealing to people who grew up in rural areasthe railroad allowed people to move East easier
- 59. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following is a strategy used by unions to force employers to meet labor demands?InjunctionsLock outsScabsStrikes
- 60. Multiple ChoiceWhy were strikes not as effective in industries with unskilled workers?Unskilled workers were paid high wages.Unskilled workers could be replaced more easily than skilled workers.Unskilled workers were not allowed to join unions.Many unskilled workers were deported for supporting unions.
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